TheCollector
17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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10 months ago
Data Boutique
From Zero to a Fully Automated Web Data Pipeline
Step by step guide
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle
Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read...
over a year ago
Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read numerous classic papers of systems design. I enjoyed and learned a great deal from many of these papers, but one that paper that has stuck with me in particular was Saltzer et al’s...
David Heinemeier...
Every generation needs their own apocalypse
Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for...
10 months ago
Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for 2024 were a startling refutation of the idea that young people must be inherently left-leaning. The dominating winner was Liberal Alliance, a center-right party that speaks to the...
Old Structures...
The Queen Anne Style Is Rare In New York
I was on the Upper East Side and saw two houses that don’t quite fit in on Park Avenue north of 69th...
10 months ago
I was on the Upper East Side and saw two houses that don’t quite fit in on Park Avenue north of 69th Street. Those two rowhouses are listed in the records of the Upper East Side Historic District as having been built between 1882 and 1885 as part of a larger row, with the other...
Nat Eliason's...
The Scariest Day of My Life
What the hell am I supposed to do?
5 months ago
What the hell am I supposed to do?
Christopher Butler
My Reverse Time Capsule
While rummaging in the WIRED magazine archives, I found this entry from 1995. In it, Douglas...
a year ago
While rummaging in the WIRED magazine archives, I found this entry from 1995. In it, Douglas Copeland imagines a “reverse time capsule,” sent back to 1975 and wonders what in it would be most surprising to those on the receiving end, twenty years prior. Well, now we’re just shy...
TheCollector
Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
gathering different pieces of myself
I’ve been back home for a few days now. It feels good to be where I feel the safest, slowly working...
a year ago
I’ve been back home for a few days now. It feels good to be where I feel the safest, slowly working to get back to the routine I had before. Yesterday I...
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Building an open source data science publishing platform - An interview with Datapane CEO, Leo...
(Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations where we chat to our contributors...
over a year ago
(Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations where we chat to our contributors and users.) Unlike most tech founders, Leo Anthias…
Uncharted...
GeoHistory News | Q3 2024
Longshoremen strike, Mexico – Spain conflict, how Islam propelled Europe more than Protestantism,...
2 months ago
Longshoremen strike, Mexico – Spain conflict, how Islam propelled Europe more than Protestantism, and more
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “stoically facing the end times” edition
1. When is AI coding not AI coding? You might have heard something about how Google now creates a...
a month ago
1. When is AI coding not AI coding? You might have heard something about how Google now creates a quarter of its code using AI. But as with most things concerning everyone’s favourite hot tech, the devil is in the details. And the details, according to this poster on Hacker News,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Un Croissant
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a year ago
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CONTEMPORIST
This Bedroom With A Partial Glass Floor Looks Down To The Living Room Below
Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo,...
a year ago
Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that features a partial glass floor in the bedroom. The apartment has been designed with the living space on the lower floor, while the bedroom is located upstairs. One...
McMansion Hell
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven
Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a...
10 months ago
Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps...
NeuroLogica Blog
Flooding is Increasing
Last month my flight home from Chicago was canceled because of an intense rainstorm. In CT the storm...
3 months ago
Last month my flight home from Chicago was canceled because of an intense rainstorm. In CT the storm was intense enough to cause flash flooding, which washed out roads and bridges and shut down traffic in many areas. The epicenter of the rainfall was in Oxford, CT (where my...
TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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3 months ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Fancy Digs
Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st...
3 months ago
Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st Street: The relatively-low brown building two blocks up is the Dakota Apartments, but the drawing in the comic isn’t accurate enough to recognize it. The building at the first...
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
Musings on Markets
Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!
In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023,...
10 months ago
In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023, driven by a stronger-than-expected economy and inflation coming down, and then at how interest rates mirrored this rebound. In this post, I look at risk, a central theme in finance and...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Natal
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a month ago
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Darek Kay
Git explained: Commit ranges
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
over a year ago
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
Confessions of a...
An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython
No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
a month ago
No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
Uncharted...
What Is the Earth’s Carrying Capacity?
Most "experts" don't understand technology or economics
a month ago
Most "experts" don't understand technology or economics
Seth's Blog
Dumbing it down
There’s a lot of pressure to make things dumber. Better to make it dumb than to have someone simply...
a month ago
There’s a lot of pressure to make things dumber. Better to make it dumb than to have someone simply walk away, apparently. With so much to consume, and an unlimited amount to learn, there’s a race to make knowledge into a checklist item. Freon gas! Large language model!...
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
Herbert Lui
Some notes on a return visit to Hong Kong
In late 2021, I moved to Hong Kong for six months. My partner and I enjoyed it so much that we ended...
2 weeks ago
In late 2021, I moved to Hong Kong for six months. My partner and I enjoyed it so much that we ended up staying nearly a year and a half. We moved to New York City shortly after that, and I started my job at Figma. I always thought I’d document the trip some other […]
The post...
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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6 months ago
Home on Erik...
The relationship between commit size and commit message size
Wow I guess it was more than a year ago that I tweeted this. Crazy how time flies by. Anyway, here's...
over a year ago
Wow I guess it was more than a year ago that I tweeted this. Crazy how time flies by. Anyway, here's my rationale:
When I update one line of code I feel like I have to put in a long explanation about its side effects, why it's fully backwards compatible, and why it fixes some...
SatPost by Trung...
Trader Joe's: The Anti-Grocer
The grocer created a cult brand with sales of $16B+ a year by doing the opposite of industry...
a year ago
The grocer created a cult brand with sales of $16B+ a year by doing the opposite of industry best-practices (from wages to product to ads).
NeuroLogica Blog
Factory Farming is Better Than Organic Farming
Some narratives are simply ubiquitous in our culture (every culture has its universal narratives)....
5 days ago
Some narratives are simply ubiquitous in our culture (every culture has its universal narratives). Sometimes these narratives emerge out of shared values, like liberty and freedom. Sometimes they emerge out of foundational beliefs (the US still has a puritanical bent). And...
Open Culture
Watch a Japanese Artisan Hand-Craft a Cello in 6 Months
Cellists unwilling to settle for any but the finest instrument must, sooner or later, make a...
5 months ago
Cellists unwilling to settle for any but the finest instrument must, sooner or later, make a pilgrimage to Cremona — or rather, to the Cremonas. One is, of course, the city in Lombardy that was home to numerous pioneering master luthiers, up to and including Antonio Stradivari....
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The best Google Optimize alternatives for apps and websites
Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement ...
a year ago
Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement on its website, Google said: "Google Optimize and…
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we made something people want
It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This...
over a year ago
It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This principle, and the ones that follow in this post…
Laetitia@Work
5 things I find very interesting about the Boeing downfall
Laetitia@Work #70
7 months ago
Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
Retail Design Blog
MAAP LaB Hong Kong
Since Jarrad Smith and Ollie Cousins founded MAAP a decade ago, the tech performance wear brand –...
3 weeks ago
Since Jarrad Smith and Ollie Cousins founded MAAP a decade ago, the tech performance wear brand – geared specifically towards...
The Pragmatic...
Speakers for Amsterdam / Netherlands Tech Events
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the...
4 months ago
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the Netherlands, or somewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, rarely do talks – I do one conference per year.
However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks...
diamond geezer
The London Monopoly board
Free
ParkingStrand
Fleet Street
Trafalgar SquareFenchurch
Street
stationLeicester Square
Coventry...
yesterday
Free
ParkingStrand
Fleet Street
Trafalgar SquareFenchurch
Street
stationLeicester Square
Coventry St
Water Works
PiccadillyGo To
Jail
Vine Street
Marlborough
Street
Bow StreetMONOPOLY
(the full clickable set)Regent Street
Oxford Street
Bond...
Rest of World -...
When disaster strikes, the world opens WhatsApp
Meta's messaging app has transformed communication in conflict and crisis areas.
a week ago
Meta's messaging app has transformed communication in conflict and crisis areas.
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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9 months ago
Seth's Blog
Your preference is not universal
You’re entitled to it, and we will do our best to help you find what you want. But it’s unlikely...
a year ago
You’re entitled to it, and we will do our best to help you find what you want. But it’s unlikely that what you want is what everyone wants. It’s hard to believe that there is only one appropriate standard for value, observance, speed or performance. The easiest way for us to help...
Rest of World -...
The job listing app where you can slide into a recruiter’s DMs
Boss Zhipin’s AI connects job seekers directly with recruiters, and it’s thriving on China’s...
a year ago
Boss Zhipin’s AI connects job seekers directly with recruiters, and it’s thriving on China’s employment crisis.
alexwlchan
What mammal is that?
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take...
11 months ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot:
No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held...
Grow With Less
Here Is What a Disappointing Experiment Taught Me About Headline A/B Testing
After reading about the huge conversion boosts many bloggers got after A/B testing their headlines,...
over a year ago
After reading about the huge conversion boosts many bloggers got after A/B testing their headlines, I assumed A/B testing the headlines of 73 articles I have published on my language learning blog French Together would be a no brainer.
I could already picture myself writing a...
The Modern House
Architects Mariia Pashenko and Koen Schaballie on the radical reinvention of their Victorian home in...
a year ago
SOCKS
A Building to Tell the Time: The Toghrol Tower in Rey, Iran (1063)
The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and...
over a year ago
The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and Sarooj, a water-resistant mortar. It was erected in 1063, and according to some sources, it was conceived as the tomb of Tuğrul Beg, the founder of the Seljuk dynasty. Other scholars...
diamond geezer
An A-Z of London post offices
I wanted to buy a dozen stamps.
For this alphabetical challenge I needed a list of London's post...
a year ago
I wanted to buy a dozen stamps.
For this alphabetical challenge I needed a list of London's post offices, which is awkward because the Post Office's branch finder doesn't do lists, only "closest to"s. Thankfully this is a problem other people also have, and volunteers at...
Open Culture
Watch Patti Smith Read from Virginia Woolf, and Hear the Only Surviving Recording of Woolf’s Voice
In the video above, poet, artist, National Book Award winner, and “godmother of punk” Patti Smith...
6 months ago
In the video above, poet, artist, National Book Award winner, and “godmother of punk” Patti Smith reads a selection from Virginia Woolf’s 1931 experimental novel The Waves, accompanied on piano and guitar by her daughter Jesse and son Jackson. The “reading” marked the opening of...
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI’s end-run around copyright won’t be resolved by the courts
Output similarity is a distraction
11 months ago
Output similarity is a distraction
TheCollector
Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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8 months ago
Sam Altman
A Clarification
I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was
easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to...
over a year ago
I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was
easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to clarify it.
I didn’t mean that we need to tolerate brilliant homophobic
jerks in the lab so that we can have scientific progress.
Although there are famous...
Darek Kay
Delaying asset requests in Eleventy
While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading...
a year ago
While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading behavior. One technique is to provide a visual fallback as long as the images are still loading. First, a static background color included in the markup is displayed. As soon as a...
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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6 months ago
HTMHell
Using SRI to protect from malicious JavaScript
At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively...
over a year ago
At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively enhance using JavaScript. There are few different options of how you add JavaScript. Firstly, we can write our own script using vanilla JS only, and self host the JavaScript file....
TheCollector
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Tim Cook's notes | Steve Jobs emails himself
We made a fundamental error with the launch. Normal fan base focused on iPhone XS/XS Max. Momentum...
over a year ago
We made a fundamental error with the launch. Normal fan base focused on iPhone XS/XS Max. Momentum from event wasn’t sustained. Didn’t need to be last year but in retrospect we should have done more to keep the buzz going.
MMapped blog
IC internals: the ICP ledger
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
over a year ago
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
Anecdotal Evidence
'All These Jolts of Beauty'
Once I
interviewed a mycologist who, before his lecture, removed a yellow mushroom
from an oak tree...
a month ago
Once I
interviewed a mycologist who, before his lecture, removed a yellow mushroom
from an oak tree in front of the hall where he was speaking and munched on it
while he spoke. A few years later the writer Paul Metcalf, author of Genoa (1965), swore me to secrecy before
revealing...
NeuroLogica Blog
Odysseus Lands on the Moon
December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 soft landed on the lunar surface, carrying astronauts Gene Cernan and...
10 months ago
December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 soft landed on the lunar surface, carrying astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. This was the last time anything American soft landed on the moon, over 50 years ago. It seems amazing that it’s been that long. On February 22, 2024, the Odysseus...
The Modern House
Life and love in a 1960s townhouse in north London
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
Liz Denys
A geek feminism anecdote
Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't...
over a year ago
Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't intended to be about a specific topic - it's just full of what I feel like writing at the time. Perhaps, more technical things will follow in the future.
Some friends and I randomly...
DYNOMIGHT
Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology
Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what’s best? Society seems to think pretty highly...
2 months ago
Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what’s best? Society seems to think pretty highly of arithmetic. It’s one of the first things we learn as children. So I think it’s weird that only a tiny percentage of people seem to know how to actually use arithmetic. Or maybe...
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
3 weeks ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
Seth's Blog
The half-life of magic
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to...
7 months ago
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to imagine the you of twenty years ago holding a Rabbit R1, or using a cell phone or being able to listen to every song, ever recorded, for just a few dollars a month. We don’t just take...
Good Enough
TIL: Rails Testing
I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around...
a year ago
I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around my lack of Chrome. Rails System Tests with Safari.
I also had some problems with Rails Turbo Drive taking over EVERYTHING, which required me to figure out how to deal with a Rails...
Seth's Blog
Knowing your customers
In the very small business, the freelancer knows each customer. By name, by volume, by preferences....
4 months ago
In the very small business, the freelancer knows each customer. By name, by volume, by preferences. And in the huge business, expensive software, data analysts and relentless margin seeking pushes organizations to increase their yield. But most businesses (and non-profits and...
Seth's Blog
Big science
To win a Nobel prize a hundred years ago, you might only need a legal pad and a few pencils. Today,...
a year ago
To win a Nobel prize a hundred years ago, you might only need a legal pad and a few pencils. Today, it takes millions of dollars, scores of people and many years of effort. That’s because the most straightforward problems have been solved. One side effect of this inevitable shift...
blag
Recurse Center Day 16: Open Source
merged few open pull requests on my projects
over a year ago
merged few open pull requests on my projects
Sam Altman
The Merge
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...
over a year ago
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075.
People used to call this the...
lcamtuf’s thing
RAM: the forgotten history
We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working...
2 months ago
We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
journal – Winnie Lim
7 years of love, bound in a handmade booklet
photoessay: documenting 7 years of togetherness
a year ago
photoessay: documenting 7 years of togetherness
Mazdak
Minimize Taxes, Maximize Inheritance: A Canadian Guide to Estate Planning with Real Estate
For Canadians nearing retirement, minimizing probate fees and ensuring smooth inheritance become key...
10 months ago
For Canadians nearing retirement, minimizing probate fees and ensuring smooth inheritance become key concerns. In this context, real estate, often the largest asset, presents unique challenges and opportunities. While strategies like adding children to titles were once popular,...
Diaries of Note
Today was truly, absolutely the worst day ever in Sarajevo
In April 1992, following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, simmering tensions...
a year ago
In April 1992, following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, simmering tensions among the region’s ethnic groups escalated into the devastating Bosnian War. It wasn’t long before the city of Sarajevo found itself under siege. Amidst the chaos, a courageous young...
Max Rozen
The Definitive Guide to Commonly Used Words in React
Do some words in React have you scratching your head? Ref? Stateless component? Let's learn some...
over a year ago
Do some words in React have you scratching your head? Ref? Stateless component? Let's learn some words!
TheCollector
UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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5 months ago
Math Is Still...
Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?
Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has...
5 months ago
Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has acquired what some believe is an impressive sense of humanity. How is this possible? Listen to this week’s “The Joy of Why” with co-host Steven Strogatz.
The post Will AI Ever...
Seth's Blog
Freedom of attitude
There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating...
a year ago
There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating and is reliably busy. The other has an astonishingly low 1.5 out of 5 rating. The physical plant is virtually identical, and the marketing and promo are the same. The only difference...
One Useful Thing
Detecting the Secret Cyborgs
The AI Trap for Organizations
a year ago
The AI Trap for Organizations
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Isn't Usage Based Billing A Bigger Category?
Usage billing is the new hotness for SaaS, and I have personally seen the pain it caused, but I was...
over a year ago
Usage billing is the new hotness for SaaS, and I have personally seen the pain it caused, but I was ultimately scared off from investing in it.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Automating a software company with GitHub Actions
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs,...
over a year ago
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
McMansion Hell
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion...
3 months ago
Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion Hell 2.0” – If you see it, please report! Thanks!
Howdy folks! I hope if you were born between 1995 and 2001 you’re ready for some indelible pre-recession vibes because I think this...
diamond geezer
BBC2@60
60years@BBC2
1964 Play School, Horizon, Match Of The Day, Not Only But Also; 1965 Call My Bluff, Man...
8 months ago
60years@BBC2
1964 Play School, Horizon, Match Of The Day, Not Only But Also; 1965 Call My Bluff, Man Alive; 1966 The Money Programme, Chronicle, Cathy Come Home; 1967 The Forsyte Saga, Look and Read, colour televison; 1968 Gardeners' World, The Morecambe & Wise Show; 1969 Q, Pot...
Bits about Money
A review of Number Go Up, on crypto shenanigans
A review of Zeke Faux's Number Go Up, with some bonus commentary on financial journalism and Tether...
a year ago
A review of Zeke Faux's Number Go Up, with some bonus commentary on financial journalism and Tether specifically.
Oykun
Designers, charge more $$$ to help yourself and your clients.
Many designers shy away from increasing their rates, fearing it will scare clients away and put them...
7 months ago
Many designers shy away from increasing their rates, fearing it will scare clients away and put them under pressure to deliver higher-quality work.
Understandable concerns with the common fixed mindset.
However, if you want to grow as a Designer, you must be comfortable with...
Retail Design Blog
VARIO Shanghai Flagship Store by Yuan Shi Design
Shanghai-based custom home brand VARIO embraces its brand philosophy of “Haipai Elegance,” with a...
a month ago
Shanghai-based custom home brand VARIO embraces its brand philosophy of “Haipai Elegance,” with a focus on Haipai culture. By blending...
The Marginalian
How to Love Yourself and How to Love Another: A Playful and Poignant Vintage Illustrated Fable about...
The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override...
3 weeks ago
The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override this elemental self-reference only with constant vigilance, reminding ourselves again and again as we forget over and over how difficult it is — how nigh impossible — to know what...
balajis.com
The Network State Conference
Come to Amsterdam on October 30 to build the parallel establishment.
a year ago
Come to Amsterdam on October 30 to build the parallel establishment.
42!
How we "judo'd" a server outage to create a customer evangelist
Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash
I was listening to Arvid Kahl’s latest podcast episode on my...
over a year ago
Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash
I was listening to Arvid Kahl’s latest podcast episode on my morning walk today, where he talked about Facebook’s recent 6 hour outage, and how you can ‘judo’ negative things like server downtime into a positive outcome.
As a former student of the...
Map of the Week
Make the Desert Bloom
Tomas Pueyo has an idea to help combat global warming and rising seas. His idea is to create new...
a year ago
Tomas Pueyo has an idea to help combat global warming and rising seas. His idea is to create new seas by flooding several below sea level basins, such as the Dead Sea or Death Valley with seawater to create or enlarge inland seas. Here is an image from his Substack pages showing...
Probably...
Regrets and Regression
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
5 months ago
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. standardize Standardization and Normalization¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. I want to write a research...
The Modern House
Explore Simon Allford’s ‘family home in the sky’ in our new film series
10 months ago
Home on Erik...
I believe in the 10x engineer, but...
The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be...
over a year ago
The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language.
samwho.dev
A Commitment to Art and Dogs
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6 months ago
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Words and Buttons...
[e-book] So You Think You Know C? And TenMore Short Essays on Programming Languages
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most...
over a year ago
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most productive way to create software. The journey, however, has taught me a few things so it was not a complete waste of time either.
This book is a reflection of these lessons. It...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Asheville Restaurants Refining Appalachian Culinary Traditions
11 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Don't lose your unreasonable sense of urgency
Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to...
a year ago
Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to launch something from nothing into reality without being incredibly impatient for progress. Thus most founders begin 🎶Their Journey🎶 sprinting from one pressing problem to the...
Andrej Karpathy blog
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
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over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Model
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a year ago
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 1-7 April 2024
Our top stories from the last seven days.
8 months ago
Our top stories from the last seven days.
diamond geezer
Cromwell Road Bus Station
Cromwell Road bus station in Kingston has reopened.
There are eight versions of today's post,...
a month ago
Cromwell Road bus station in Kingston has reopened.
There are eight versions of today's post, according to your level of interest.
(click to jump to the right one)
1) I just need the basics
2) I never intend to visit but tell me more
3) I sometimes use this bus station
4) I...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Elegant
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4 days ago
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Today's News:
Irrational...
ReadME contribution on reliability programs.
I was excited to contribute an article,
Move past incident response to reliability
to Github’s The...
a year ago
I was excited to contribute an article,
Move past incident response to reliability
to Github’s The ReadME project.
This topic was particularly on my mind when I wrote it towards the end of last year,
when I was focused on my Infrastructure Engineering project.
That project is a...
Old Structures...
A Depressing Follow-Up
Seven years ago, I said of the SS United States “Without a use and without a lot of money, it will...
5 months ago
Seven years ago, I said of the SS United States “Without a use and without a lot of money, it will be gone forever. And if that happens, the world won’t end but it will be poorer for the loss.” Neither a use nor the money was found and as of September 12 this coming fall, the […]
TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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a week ago
diamond geezer
Strand
STRAND
£220
London's Monopoly Streets
STRAND
Colour group: red
Purchase price: £220
Rent:...
5 months ago
STRAND
£220
London's Monopoly Streets
STRAND
Colour group: red
Purchase price: £220
Rent: £18
Length: 1200m
Borough: Westminster
Postcode: WC2
Vine Street was ridiculously short and dull whereas this is long, historic and so packed with points of interest I could easily...
Old Structures...
6:52 AM, November 27
Half an hour after dawn, and the setting full moon is just to the right and below the ONE WAY sign....
a year ago
Half an hour after dawn, and the setting full moon is just to the right and below the ONE WAY sign. The construction on the left is poart of the Battery Resliency program to prtocet lower Manahttan against sea level rise.
Steve Blank
Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian...
It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot...
over a year ago
It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. (Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Chief Operating Officer of a company – but in this case the company has 3 million...
mtlynch.io
Projects
TinyPilot (2020 - present) TinyPilot is a small, inexpensive device that gives you remote access to...
over a year ago
TinyPilot (2020 - present) TinyPilot is a small, inexpensive device that gives you remote access to servers before they even boot.
Refactoring English (2021) Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers is my upcoming book that teaches developers practical tips...
Buck on Software
Category velocity
People make decisions, not businesses.
over a year ago
People make decisions, not businesses.
Blog System/5
To C or not to C
That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend
10 months ago
That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend
Blog - Practical...
When Infrastructure Gets Hacked
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is a water tower, or as...
3 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is a water tower, or as the pros would say, an elevated storage tank. Pretty common here in the US, especially in flatter areas where there’s no nearby hillside to build a ground-level tank. I have a whole...
mtlynch.io
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One)
Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these...
over a year ago
Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every other component of a review. Communicating issues you discover in a constructive and professional way? Irrelevant! Just...
Grow With Less
Is Your Article's Date Destroying Your Rankings?
Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking...
over a year ago
Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking and a page 5 ranking.
This means that you should not only keep your content up-to-date but also make sure that Google knows it’s up-to-date.
This article will show you how to find...
Uncharted...
The Players of the Syrian Chessboard
What will Israel, Russia, Turkey, the Kurds, Europe, and Lebanon do?
a week ago
What will Israel, Russia, Turkey, the Kurds, Europe, and Lebanon do?
Both Are True
Let go AND let god?
seems like a lot no?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Excel
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3 months ago
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Retail Design Blog
Paris Saint Germain Flagship Store by oftn studio
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is a football club based in Paris, France, that extends its football...
3 months ago
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is a football club based in Paris, France, that extends its football culture into lifestyle products, including...
Louwrentius
Thunderbolt, a cheap high-speed storage interconnect?
Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace...
over a year ago
Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace both USB and Firewire. It is mainly targeted at end-user systems allowing to connect peripherals with just a single cable to a computer. Thunderbolt devices, like external hard...
Vadim Kravcenko
Exit. Selling your SaaS
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Exit. Selling your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
RhysTranter.com
“This is what we are about”: The Romero Prayer
A beautiful prayer about vocation by Bishop Ken Untener of Saginaw, often attributed to St Óscar...
7 months ago
A beautiful prayer about vocation by Bishop Ken Untener of Saginaw, often attributed to St Óscar Romero
The Modern House
Nice Slice: the best pizza in London
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Eighteen pitfalls to beware of in AI journalism
A checklist for avoiding hype
over a year ago
A checklist for avoiding hype
TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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a month ago
Strange Loop Canon
The mystery of the garage
10 months ago
Willem's Blog
I see dead people
This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old...
3 months ago
This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old photos into lifelike representations.
Vadim Kravcenko
Managing difficult software engineers
In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every...
a year ago
In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every project, every failure, and […]
The post Managing difficult software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
SatPost by Trung...
Travelogue: Central & Eastern Europe
17 thoughts from a trip to Munich, Prague, Budapest, Vienna and Dubrovnik
4 months ago
17 thoughts from a trip to Munich, Prague, Budapest, Vienna and Dubrovnik
macwright.com
How I write and publish the microblog by ()
This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too...
a year ago
This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too “official” feeling to post little notes-to-self and tech tricks and whatnot.
The setup is intentionally pretty boring. I have been using Obsidian for notetaking, and I store micro blog...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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a year ago
Farza's Newsletter
just drank a $4 bottle of smart water and im still dumb af someone help
Hey all, been a while. Let me tell you a story. 2022 was one of the most challenging years of my...
a year ago
Hey all, been a while. Let me tell you a story. 2022 was one of the most challenging years of my life. In 2022 — buildspace raised $10M at a $100M valuation. This company is by far the most valuable, impactful thing I’ve ever worked on. To this day, the company has continued to...
Old Structures...
Happy Presidents’ Day
The cover of the dinner menu for Washington’s Birthday from the SS Columbia of the Hamburg-Amerika...
10 months ago
The cover of the dinner menu for Washington’s Birthday from the SS Columbia of the Hamburg-Amerika Line. That’s a portrati of the Columbia on the right, apparently about to run down a sailboat. Columbia had a weird history, having served as a liner between Germany and the US,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Language
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2 months ago
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Math Is Still...
How to Build a Big Prime Number
A new algorithm brings together the advantages of randomness and deterministic processes to reliably...
a year ago
A new algorithm brings together the advantages of randomness and deterministic processes to reliably construct large prime numbers.
The post How to Build a Big Prime Number first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
The list of compromises
All the no-compromise solutions have failed. If there was a way to solve our problem without giving...
a year ago
All the no-compromise solutions have failed. If there was a way to solve our problem without giving something up, we would have done that already. So, if a persistent problem important, the question is not: Should we compromise or not? The question is: Which changes are we going...
Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
6 months ago
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
Old Structures...
Originality Is Not Easy, Part 1
A piece of a patent – Number 574,434 to Herbert Keithley, applied for June 29, 1896 and awarded...
3 months ago
A piece of a patent – Number 574,434 to Herbert Keithley, applied for June 29, 1896 and awarded January 5, 1897 – titled “Building Construction”: The important context for US construction: the first skeleton-frame buildings, where the exterior walls were supported on a metal...
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Technology and job creation
In response to my recent post “Making industries ‘garage ready’ for startups“, venture...
over a year ago
In response to my recent post “Making industries ‘garage ready’ for startups“, venture capitalist Jordan Elpern-Waxman made an interesting…
NeuroLogica Blog
New Theory Unites Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
One of the greatest mysteries of modern science is how to unite the two overarching theories of...
a year ago
One of the greatest mysteries of modern science is how to unite the two overarching theories of physics – quantum mechanics and general relativity. If physicists could somehow unite these two theories, which currently do not play well together, then we might get to a deeper “one...
Making software...
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
2020-09-02
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it's...
over a year ago
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
2020-09-02
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it's pretty great. I know these types of devices tend to be used for smaller pet-projects or fun experiments, but I thought I would share my experience using one as my main computer....
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Issue With The COVID Bailout | Out-Of-Pocket
A WHOLE NEW WORLD, A NEW PANDEMIC POINT OF VIEW
a year ago
A WHOLE NEW WORLD, A NEW PANDEMIC POINT OF VIEW
The Marginalian
There Was a Shadow: A Lyrical Illustrated Celebration of the Changing Light, in the World and in the...
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty,” Junichiro Tanizaki wrote in the 1933 Japanese...
5 months ago
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty,” Junichiro Tanizaki wrote in the 1933 Japanese classic In Praise of Shadows. As a physical phenomenon, shadows are one of the most beguiling phenomena of nature, emissaries of the entwined history of light and consciousness; as...
CONTEMPORIST
A Cantilever At One End Allows This Home To Project Over The Land
Leah Martin, partner and founder of Allied8 Architects in Seattle, Washington, has shared photos of...
5 months ago
Leah Martin, partner and founder of Allied8 Architects in Seattle, Washington, has shared photos of a modern Orcas Island home she designed for herself and her family. This small home, which cantilevers at one end, sits on the top of a ridge and is anchored to the bedrock in six...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Jessie de Salis
I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print...
4 months ago
I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print colourful patterned fabrics from a Somerset barn, a space we share with the sparrows and house-martins.
What inspires you?
I love bold and bright design. I always seem to come back to...
Luxagraf:...
Greenfield Village
It's always seems slightly perverse to me to head east in a country that once lived by the slogan,...
a year ago
It's always seems slightly perverse to me to head east in a country that once lived by the slogan, go west. Whatever the case, we're eastbound again and when planning our route we ran across something called Greenfield Village.
Greenfield Village is difficult to describe, but...
The Honest Broker
The Best Recordings of 2023 (Honorable Mention List)
I'll soon share my 100 favorite albums of the year—meanwhile here are 50 honorable mention records...
a year ago
I'll soon share my 100 favorite albums of the year—meanwhile here are 50 honorable mention records of exceptional merit
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Steve Jobs on problem solving
When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don’t really understand the...
over a year ago
When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don’t really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get…
Stoic Simple
Students of Stoicism: Using Stoic Philosophy in Teaching & Education
In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world, students face immense pressure to perform well...
a year ago
In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world, students face immense pressure to perform well academically, often at the cost of their emotional and mental well-being. As a result, many students struggle with stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem, which can impact their...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1982/08 Commodore Computing International Mag
Time for some humor
5 months ago
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 months ago
sbensu
Love's Executioner (book)
Countertransference applies to regular conversation.
3 weeks ago
Countertransference applies to regular conversation.
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 26
The Power of Meeting Weirdos
a year ago
The Power of Meeting Weirdos
TheCollector
Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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11 months ago
Home on Erik...
It's called Berkson's paradox!
As noted by multiple tweets, my previous post describes a phenomenon denoted Berkson's...
over a year ago
As noted by multiple tweets, my previous post describes a phenomenon denoted Berkson's paradox.
Here's another example: Why Are Handsome Men Such Jerks?
AFAR Media - Travel...
Inside Marie Antoinette’s Reopened Apartment At Versailles
a year ago
Maps Mania
The American Election & the Rest of the World
2 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ethics
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Working Theorys
Writer-Builders
Theory #39 | The archetype of new kind of renaissance man
7 months ago
Theory #39 | The archetype of new kind of renaissance man
Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
3 months ago
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
Old Structures...
Unrestricted
New York’s first zoning law went into effect in 1916. It is famous for partially restricting...
10 months ago
New York’s first zoning law went into effect in 1916. It is famous for partially restricting heights, by forcing setbacks of building mass facing streets, but it also restricted some uses of land. The map below – an actual blueprint, for what that’s worth – shows “Tentative Use...
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Twitter and third-party Twitter developers
I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all...
over a year ago
I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all time high. Apple, Google, Facebook…
The Modern House
How two lifelong friends built a space-savvy home to share on an awkward site in Homerton
a year ago
Computer Things
NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses
No Newsletter next week
I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe.
NoCode Will Not Bring...
7 months ago
No Newsletter next week
I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe.
NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses
I don't have a whole lot of time this week so here's something that's been on my mind a little. I haven't researched any of the factual claims; consider this...
diamond geezer
perhaps your most incredibly dull post
According to a reader, my investigation of the five smallest parks in Barking and Dagenham was...
2 weeks ago
According to a reader, my investigation of the five smallest parks in Barking and Dagenham was "perhaps your most incredibly dull post".
All the buses in Barking and Dagenham in alphabetical order
What I had for dinner on December 4th for the last 45 years
1980 roast
1981...
Alex Meub
Install JSDOM On Windows
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation...
over a year ago
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation of the DOM that makes it super easy to work with pages retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, JSDOM relies on a node package called Contextify that is difficult to get working...
The Works in...
How to start an advance market commitment
A practical guide from the founders of Frontier
6 months ago
A practical guide from the founders of Frontier
Epic Web Dev
Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop)
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS...
5 months ago
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS techniques, and Tailwind v4 migration in this workshop.
TheCollector
7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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4 months ago
Quentin Santos
Beware Rust Buffering
This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much...
3 months ago
This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much time to figure it out, I made this article as a reminder. Also, there is a post scriptum, also about buffers, but not about Rust. While writing my article about Linux pipes, I needed...
The Modern House
A Modern Way to Live: our co-founder Matt Gibberd on nature
With the arrival of April, its showers and – hopefully – some flowers, comes a new theme for the...
8 months ago
With the arrival of April, its showers and – hopefully – some flowers, comes a new theme for the Journal’s content. As we did with space in January, light in February and materials in March, for the coming weeks we’ll be looking at all the […]
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: Views of Mars from NASA’s Mars Observer – July 27, 1993
Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s,...
a year ago
Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s, the lack of any new NASA missions to Mars during the 1980s […]
Tony Dinh's...
$322 → $2K MRR in 60 days by building in public
Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I...
over a year ago
Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I originally posted on Indie Hackers, but I think you all will also be interested! It’s a long post about my journey growing Black Magic to $2K MRR in the last 2 months.
Contemporist...
This Home's Addition Is Designed To Feel Like You've Stepped Into The Garden
BENT Architecture has shared photos of a project they designed in Victoria, Australia, that included...
a year ago
BENT Architecture has shared photos of a project they designed in Victoria, Australia, that included the design of a rear extension that answers the statement, "Imagine if your home could feel like living in a garden pavilion".
Mazdak
The Shadow Bankers Rise: Private Credit Fuels M&A in a Turbulent Market
While 2023 witnessed a 6% dip in US M&A value, a silent force has emerged as the lifeblood of...
11 months ago
While 2023 witnessed a 6% dip in US M&A value, a silent force has emerged as the lifeblood of deal-making in this uncertain market: private credit. Stepping in where traditional bank financing hesitates, private credit has carved a niche with its nimble agility and diverse tools.
Julia Evans
The "current branch" in git
Hello! I know I just wrote a blog post about HEAD in git, but I’ve been
thinking more about what the...
9 months ago
Hello! I know I just wrote a blog post about HEAD in git, but I’ve been
thinking more about what the term “current branch” means in git and it’s a
little weirder than I thought.
four possible definitions for “current branch”
It’s what’s in the file .git/HEAD. This is how the git...
The Wandering...
Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 4: from the Ya-hu oasis to Hami.
[Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see...
over a year ago
[Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see that Younghusband now has to turn south, as his own map shows. The journey takes from June 23rd to July 4th, or twelve days. His mapmaker places Ula Khutun almost halfway from...
TheCollector
Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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9 months ago
Willem's Blog
Wearing two watches
Why you should wear two watches, don't choose between a mechanical watch and a smartwatch!
over a year ago
Why you should wear two watches, don't choose between a mechanical watch and a smartwatch!
Steve Klabnik
Pointers in Rust, a guide
over a year ago
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Sept 2019 Recap
Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Hello mailing list friends!
Confessions of a...
CPython Memory Management Internals
A high-level but detailed explanation of how CPython implements memory management
7 months ago
A high-level but detailed explanation of how CPython implements memory management
Rest of World -...
How Microsoft and the UAE got caught in the crossfire of the U.S.-China tech war
Geopolitical tensions have ensnared Microsoft’s deal for AI company G42.
5 months ago
Geopolitical tensions have ensnared Microsoft’s deal for AI company G42.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - End
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11 months ago
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Not Sucking at TypeScript: 3 Tips
I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting...
over a year ago
I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting there with all those little "fuck-fuck-fucks" in my head, thinking of how I'd great it would be to burn the annotations, change the extensions to .js and get out of this nighmare...
IEEE Spectrum
The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held from 18 June through 17...
a year ago
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held from 18 June through 17 August of 1956, is widely considered the event that kicked off AI as a research discipline. Organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Nathaniel Rochester, it...
Ink & Switch
01 · Welcome to the Beehive
An introduction to the Beehive project
3 months ago
An introduction to the Beehive project
99% Invisible
Trail Mix [EPISODE]
A good trail is one that is easy to follow and well maintained. Each trail is designed, constructed...
a year ago
A good trail is one that is easy to follow and well maintained. Each trail is designed, constructed and maintained to meet specific standards. These standards relate to the recreational experience the trail is intended to provide. But trails are something many of us take for...
99% Invisible
The Double Kick [EPISODE]
Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the...
11 months ago
Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the “popsicle” design, because the deck is narrow in the middle and rounded off at both ends, like a popsicle stick. This may seem stupid simple, but that basic, clean popsicle shape is...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1983/08 Today Mag
Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today...
9 months ago
Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends and relatives. Thank you.
Charles Chen
Your Interview Process Is Too Damn Long (and How To Fix It)
Long interview processes have become a bane in the tech industry. Can we fix it?
a year ago
Long interview processes have become a bane in the tech industry. Can we fix it?
Build In Public...
No-Code is Hitting an Inflection Point. Are You Ready?
Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy....
over a year ago
Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions :) Much like Shopify ‘armed the rebels’ by allowing anyone to build an e-commerce store, a slew of no-code tools are empowering...
Roberto Vitillo's...
How do you prepare for the system design interview?
I get asked this question a lot. I lost track of people I know that spend all their time brushing up...
over a year ago
I get asked this question a lot. I lost track of people I know that spend all their time brushing up on algorithmic puzzles and barely…
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism...
a year ago
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully you’ll get an understanding of what they mean,...
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 2: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy?
👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first.
In the last post, I discussed the question of access...
over a year ago
👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first.
In the last post, I discussed the question of access to capital and why’s important to verify that we do in fact have a problem before we attempt to “solve” it.
Now, we’re going to talk about the method for measuring the extent of...
Making software...
Clickable Links Inside XML
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
SatPost by Trung...
Nike’s Marketing Blindspot
What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
a year ago
What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
Elad Blog
Discussion w Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI
Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
9 months ago
Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
Open Culture
How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Beautiful Purple Dye from Snail Glands
Much has been written about the loss of color in the twenty-first century. Our environments offered...
6 months ago
Much has been written about the loss of color in the twenty-first century. Our environments offered practically every color known to man not so very long ago — and in certain eras, granted, it got to be a bit much. But now, everything seems to have retreated to a narrow palette...
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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3 months ago
Moneyness
Central bank digital currencies and the fallacy of immaculate adoption
I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new...
a year ago
I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new marketing strategies to drive adoption of its new central bank digital currency, Jam-Dex. Jam-Dex is one of only four operational central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the world,...
Cheese and Biscuits
Hainan House, Angel
Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it...
3 months ago
Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it bigger than Sicily and Sardinia and twice the size of Hawaii, with a population of over 10 million people (more than London). And yet inevitably until last week I'd never heard of...
computers are bad
2023-07-29 Free Public WiFi
Remember Free Public WiFi?
Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree...
a year ago
Remember Free Public WiFi?
Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza
in Atlanta, Georgia. This was in the age when the price of a hotel room was
directly correlated with the price of the WiFi service, and as a high school
student I was not...
swyx's site RSS Feed
A World Without Plugins
What happens if we did away with plugins altogether? The case for Imperative Recipes
over a year ago
What happens if we did away with plugins altogether? The case for Imperative Recipes
Maps Mania
Mapping Moving Borders in Real-Time
3 months ago
TokyoDev
Marketing yourself as a developer
As a developer, I've learned that no matter how good a product I build is, for the product to...
over a year ago
As a developer, I've learned that no matter how good a product I build is, for the product to succeed, it also takes good marketing. The same is true for you as a developer in the job market: while solid technical skills are necessary to land great jobs, your ability to sell...
NeuroLogica Blog
Using AI for Neuroforecasting
I’ve been following AI (artificial intelligence) news very closely, including all the controversies...
a year ago
I’ve been following AI (artificial intelligence) news very closely, including all the controversies and concerns. I tend to fall on the side of – AI is a powerful tool, we should continue to develop it and use it responsibly. We don’t need to panic, and highly restrictive laws...
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
over a year ago
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
The American Scholar
In Reprise: Next, Line Please
A new poetry prompt for players new and old
The post In Reprise: Next, Line Please appeared first on...
a month ago
A new poetry prompt for players new and old
The post In Reprise: Next, Line Please appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unspeakable
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10 months ago
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Imperiled Planet
The ecological havoc we’ve wrought
The post Imperiled Planet appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
The ecological havoc we’ve wrought
The post Imperiled Planet appeared first on The American Scholar.
diamond geezer
Unblogged April
30 unblogged things I did in April
Mon 1: Three highlights of a day spent at my Dad's in Norfolk: i)...
7 months ago
30 unblogged things I did in April
Mon 1: Three highlights of a day spent at my Dad's in Norfolk: i) going to the local art exhibition and having tea and cake with a sheep farmer. ii) watching a wren repeatedly bringing nest material into the birdbox beside my bedroom window....
Open Culture
Fritz Lang First Depicted Artificial Intelligence on Film in Metropolis (1927), and It Frightened...
Artificial intelligence seems to have become, as Michael Lewis labeled a previous chapter in the...
7 months ago
Artificial intelligence seems to have become, as Michael Lewis labeled a previous chapter in the recent history of technology, the new new thing. But human anxieties about it are, if not an old old thing, then at least part of a tradition longer than we may expect. For vivid...
Artificial Ignorance
Bridging AI and human creativity
A conversation with Harrison Telyan, co-founder of NUMI.
10 months ago
A conversation with Harrison Telyan, co-founder of NUMI.
Common Edge
Michael Van Valkenburgh on the Making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
The noted landscape architect talks about one of the great 21st century urban parks.
5 months ago
The noted landscape architect talks about one of the great 21st century urban parks.
TheCollector
Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Both Are True
good word / bad word - issue 1
because some words are good and others are bad
9 months ago
because some words are good and others are bad
TheCollector
6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Making software...
First Letter Pseudo Element
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-05-03
In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
over a year ago
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-05-03
In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset.
The HTML
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Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu
Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can...
5 months ago
Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you can insert an RSS feed.
Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Daron Acemoglu — one of the world’s most
TheCollector
5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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geezer's postbag
Thank you for your occasional emails, which I generally try to get round to answering...
11 months ago
Thank you for your occasional emails, which I generally try to get round to answering eventually.
storm names as agreed by the British, Irish and Dutch Met Offices.
Hi,
Agnes got a one word reply, and it wasn't Yes.
adventuregameco.com/things-to-do
I did not allow Babet to...
Calculated Risk
2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in November
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
a week ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in November
A brief excerpt:
NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to November 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Daylight
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Inside my writing philosophy.
8 months ago
Inside my writing philosophy.
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
over a year ago
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
Rest of World -...
Singapore’s gig workers worry new benefits could mean lower pay
A first-in-the-region law gives gig workers injury compensation and retirement benefits. But some...
2 months ago
A first-in-the-region law gives gig workers injury compensation and retirement benefits. But some workers fears the higher costs will be passed on to them.
Blog System/5
Kyua graduates
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
4 months ago
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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The Honest Broker
I Had to Say Something at My Son's Wedding
So I'm sharing it with you too
9 months ago
So I'm sharing it with you too
David Heinemeier...
One happy Rails World
Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the...
a year ago
Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the coolest conference venue possible in Amsterdam was epic. Safe to say, Rails World was a roaring success. Which is deeply satisfying to conclude, because it really wasn't a given outcome...
Nadia Asparouhova
Mapping out the tribes of climate
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent...
over a year ago
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer? With many peers in tech now working on climate issues, I tried...
The Marginalian
Nobel-Winning Poet Joseph Brodsky on the Remedy for Existential Boredom
"Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to constellations. Passion, above all, is a remedy against...
5 months ago
"Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to constellations. Passion, above all, is a remedy against boredom. Another one, of course, is pain... passion's frequent aftermath."
RhysTranter.com
Notes on Blindness
Set in the summer of 1983,
Notes on Blindness
is a beautiful 2016 docudrama that explores the life...
over a year ago
Set in the summer of 1983,
Notes on Blindness
is a beautiful 2016 docudrama that explores the life of
writer and theologian John M. Hull.
Simply Explained
Preventing Cumulative Layout Shifts with lazy loaded images (Eleventy + markdown-it)
There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button...
over a year ago
There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button or link. This is called a layout shift, and Google has declared war on them. They've added layout shifts to the Core Web Vitals, and if your website has a lot of them, it will get...
Bits about Money
The infrastructure behind ATMs
ATMs are connected to banks by networks which operate little-understood payment rails.
a year ago
ATMs are connected to banks by networks which operate little-understood payment rails.
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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mtlynch.io
Run a Simple Go Web Service on NixOS
I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a...
2 weeks ago
I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a simple web app that makes it easy for me to share files with friends and teammates.
There are several convenience apps I would run if it were easy to run them constantly. But...
Seth's Blog
A labor of love
That’s magical. To have the resources to expend labor on something that fills us with joy. If you’re...
3 months ago
That’s magical. To have the resources to expend labor on something that fills us with joy. If you’re lucky enough to encounter this, perhaps it makes sense not to confuse the issue by also trying to turn it into labor for maximum profit. When we focus on one, we often decrease...
The Tao Of Wealth
Sri Patalathri Nrisimha Perumal Stuti
Patalathri, commonly known as Singaperumal Koil is a very famous Narasimha Kshetra situated in...
over a year ago
Patalathri, commonly known as Singaperumal Koil is a very famous Narasimha Kshetra situated in Chengalpattu District, Tamilnadu. This place houses a beautiful rock-cut Narasimha temple, which is situated on a small hill. The name of the place, ‘Patalathri’ also gives a similar...
TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Christopher Butler
Organization – Office
I am on a continual quest for organization.
After the kitchen, the office is the most used room in...
a year ago
I am on a continual quest for organization.
After the kitchen, the office is the most used room in our home.
My wife and I work here, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5. Our children play and create in here just as often. It’s where we maintain several workspaces, store supplies,...
The Modern House
Henry Thorold and Jess Ayers’ remarkable railway cottage conversion in north London
a year ago
macwright.com
Competition
For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na
board of competition. Every time I saw something...
a year ago
For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na
board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was
competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list.
Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies
and...
The Honest Broker
How Picasso Turned Me into a Strategy Consultant
I share a shameful incident from my student days
6 months ago
I share a shameful incident from my student days
Londonist
A Bald Man Chooses His Favourite Bald Spots In London
The O2, the huge Hitchcock head - which is your fave?
9 months ago
The O2, the huge Hitchcock head - which is your fave?
TheCollector
10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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CONTEMPORIST
This Hotel Includes A Series Of Treehouse Inspired Elevated Cabins
Studio Saxe has shared photos of the Suitree Experience Hotel they completed in Sardinal, Costa...
a year ago
Studio Saxe has shared photos of the Suitree Experience Hotel they completed in Sardinal, Costa Rica, that offers a distinct canopy-based guest experience. Inspired by childhood treehouses, the designers created tree-inspired pods floating over the landscape, together with a...
Retail Design Blog
MAM Competence Center by INNOCAD
Since MAM is similar to a growing organism, its new competence center resembles one as well, with...
2 months ago
Since MAM is similar to a growing organism, its new competence center resembles one as well, with the intention of...
AI Snake Oil
Evaluating LLMs is a minefield
Annotated slides from a recent talk
a year ago
Annotated slides from a recent talk
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Hope This Explanation Is Wrong'
One of life’s
unsolved puzzles, especially for readers and writers: How can certain arrangements
of...
4 months ago
One of life’s
unsolved puzzles, especially for readers and writers: How can certain arrangements
of words encountered in childhood or youth, and revisited regularly for a
lifetime, still inspire delight, while others, in effect, evaporate before we
hear them? In the latter...
Jonas Hietala
Mining Incorporated (unfinished)
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I made a very...
over a year ago
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I made a very serious attempt at making a grand game for Ludum Dare 29. Unfortunately it was a far, far, too big of a game for me to be able to finish it in one weekend. But I had a great...
Copper • A blog...
Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)
Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1
Exactly 3 months and a day...
over a year ago
Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1
Exactly 3 months and a day after placing an order through a Romanian Apple reseller, I finally got my 14-inch M1 Max.
Well, actually.. I first got the wrong configuration (base model instead of CTO), had to...
Oykun
2023 Letter with 10 Lessons
Write
I've been writing for years, however, I gave the focus it deserved in 2023 as I felt the urge...
11 months ago
Write
I've been writing for years, however, I gave the focus it deserved in 2023 as I felt the urge to express my ideas more in words than colours and shapes. I didn’t resist the urge and I have seen amazing benefits.
Articulating my ideas, feelings,
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
Dan Cowell
Software engineers hate code.
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
a year ago
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches!
Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
IEEE Spectrum
The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the...
8 months ago
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail.
if you look on 3M’s own website, you will see no mention of this legacy—it’s a firm that sells abrasive materials, adhesive tapes, filters, films, personal...
Retail Design Blog
Lucida Restaurant and Bar by Shahira Fahmy Architects
The nature of this project is retained to the entertainment industry and located/(anchored in) on a...
a week ago
The nature of this project is retained to the entertainment industry and located/(anchored in) on a rooftop of a rectangular...
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 1)
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user...
over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS.
In the second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
Diaries of Note
A wet day and all its luxuries
Caroline Fox was an English diarist born in 1819 in Cornwall, England, into a prominent Quaker...
a year ago
Caroline Fox was an English diarist born in 1819 in Cornwall, England, into a prominent Quaker family—her father, Robert Were Fox, was a scientist and respected member of the community. Fox was sixteen when she began keeping the diary for which she is now known, posthumously...
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
3 days ago
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
Platformer
How Facebook does (and doesn’t) shape our political views
Four long-awaited studies paint a muddy picture of social media’s impact on public opinion
a year ago
Four long-awaited studies paint a muddy picture of social media’s impact on public opinion
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Lost In The Future
Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay
I haven't wanted to write much in the last...
a month ago
Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay
I haven't wanted to write much in the last week.
Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November 5 — to find the people to blame, to somehow explain what could&
Ralph Ammer
Edmund Husserl — Consciousness
You are awake. You think and you feel. But what is it that is doing all this thinking and feeling?...
6 months ago
You are awake. You think and you feel. But what is it that is doing all this thinking and feeling? We call it “consciousness” and over 100 years ago the philosopher Edmund Husserl made a bold attempt to uncover its secrets. Subjective experience is private The thing is:...
Jonas Hietala
Extracting schedule information from timeedit
At LIU we use timeedit to track our schedules. Recently they updated their interface and improved...
over a year ago
At LIU we use timeedit to track our schedules. Recently they updated their interface and improved some parts. It’s now possible to create a prenumeration of a collection of courses exported as csv which can then be imported to other calendar apps. But they also started to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sim
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8 months ago
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'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated years ago too.'
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Machine learning is really good at partially solving just about any problem
There’s a saying in artificial intelligence circles that techniques like machine learning (and NLP)...
over a year ago
There’s a saying in artificial intelligence circles that techniques like machine learning (and NLP) can very quickly get you, say, 80% of…
A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
over a year ago
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail to produce the best answers, and fail to create explanations that help others understand why they’re the best answers. This system works.
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Everyone is doing 1on1s wrong. I think.
Our calendars are packed with meetings. We communicate mostly in 1on1on1on1 trains. Nobody is happy....
a year ago
Our calendars are packed with meetings. We communicate mostly in 1on1on1on1 trains. Nobody is happy. Nothing gets done. Can we fix this?
TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Seth's Blog
The sixty-day staircase
In the moment, it’s really difficult. L’espirit descalier means, “the spirit of the staircase.” That...
a year ago
In the moment, it’s really difficult. L’espirit descalier means, “the spirit of the staircase.” That thing you wished you had a said just a moment ago, the bon mot or the clever riposte. It only comes to us as we’re walking away. But this sort of quick comment is good for the...
Noahpinion
Thinking about "temporary hardship"
America needs austerity. But is Musk's plan the right kind of austerity?
a month ago
America needs austerity. But is Musk's plan the right kind of austerity?
Seth's Blog
Actionable feedback
“Do you want to know what I think?” The best answer might be, “no.” Because this person is not very...
a year ago
“Do you want to know what I think?” The best answer might be, “no.” Because this person is not very good at offering useful feedback. Because you didn’t create this product or service or performance to please this person. They’re not the customer. Because you’re not going to...
Irrational...
Building personal and organizational prestige
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
a year ago
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
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